Author: Edward M. MorganPublisher: University of Toronto PressISBN: 0802092519Size: 28.10 MBFormat: PDF, KindleView: 2799DownloadRead Online
'This is an appealing study both for the clarity of its presentation and the cleverness of its arguments.

Author: Andrea BianchiPublisher: Oxford University PressISBN: 0198725116Size: 21.97 MBFormat: PDF, MobiView: 2981DownloadRead Online
Storytelling and Narratives 291 In The Aesthetics of International Law, Ed Morgan
uses analogies to literary figures to illustrate doctrines, areas, and concepts in
international law.23 Morgan creates a 'hall of mirrors effect', with each literary
figure reflecting on a set of international law themes.24 By concentrating on the '
modes of self-expression of international law rather than with its particular politics
, economics, or morals',25 the book advocates the emergence of international
legal ...

Author: Laurence Boisson De ChazournesPublisher: BRILLISBN: 9004177140Size: 75.62 MBFormat: PDFView: 6565DownloadRead Online
This Liber Amicorum in honour of Professor Vera Gowlland-Debbas covers most of the topical problems of contemporary international law, in particular those related to the United Nations, human rights and humanitarian law, law-making, ...

Author: Tuomas TiittalaPublisher: Bloomsbury PublishingISBN: 1509901965Size: 50.95 MBFormat: PDF, KindleView: 2843DownloadRead Online
Her turn to aesthetics does not follow from the Third World Approaches to International Law case-study in the conclusion, given that post-colonialists,
feminists and other critics have shown (and Martineau discussed in the public
defence) that aesthetics is fertile ground for structural bias. Moreover, whereas
Martineau proposes the critical attitude to international law as an aesthetic
experience (p 435), the imagery, narrative and aesthetics of 'fragmentation' do
not feature in her analysis ...

Author: Jean d'AspremontPublisher: Edward Elgar PublishingISBN: 178195528XSize: 66.13 MBFormat: PDF, KindleView: 7287DownloadRead OnlineAESTHETICS. OF. SCHOLARLY. ARGUMENTS. It seems hard to deny that
nowadays the aesthetics of scholarly construction are often as important as the
substantive argument that is pursued therewith. That is because internationallegal scholars think that the aesthetics contribute to the persuasiveness of their
argument. As was mentioned in the introduction, this is a consideration the
structure of this book is not alien to.8 Besides providing a buttress of the authority
of an argument, ...

Author: Publisher:ISBN:Size: 10.31 MBFormat: PDF, ePub, MobiView: 3440DownloadRead OnlineThe Aesthetics of International Law. By Ed Morgan. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 2007. Pp. 272. Price: $55.00 (Hardcover). Reviewed by Jennie Han. TheAesthetics of International Law opens with the radical claim that international
legal commentary is fundamentally a "fantasized work of art" (p. 5). Ed Morgan, a
law professor at the University of Toronto, argues that understanding this art
requires that one examine the "form or language of legal doctrine" rather than its
...

Author: Moira McConnellPublisher: Martinus Nijhoff PublishersISBN: 9004183752Size: 22.41 MBFormat: PDF, ePub, MobiView: 1598DownloadRead Online
See Ed Morgan, The Aesthetics of International Law (Toronto: University of
Toronto Press, ), pp. – , with respect to a tendency in public international law, in
LOSC-related doctrinal pronouncements, in particular, to lay claim to represent
the progressive development of the law and much more besides. He argues that:
By so situating the text historically between an instant of closure and a wide open
process, the reader becomes aware of the momentum generated by ...